Fashawn & Grizzly City Boys Wax Nostalgic Over Simpler Times On Soulful New Cut "Early 2000s"

Earlier this year, Fashawn dropped one helluva sophomore record in The Ecology, blazing cuts produced by Alchemist, DJ Khalil and Exile in large part. Since then, he's landed on glitchy cuts from 20syl and shared visuals for the album's hard-knocking opener "Guess Who's Back." Today, Fresno's destroyer-off-all-beats marks his first outing with the freshly-formed Grizzly City Boys, comprised Otis Reed, Omar Aura, Halo, TA the Handful and Dinero Sucio for the soulful single "Early 2000s" off their forthcoming debut mixtape Grizzly City USA. Here the quintet of fine-tuned wordsmiths wax nostalgic of simpler, arguably better, times over church organs, parlor pianos and a straight boom-bap feel, reminiscent of the organic hip-hop styles of Nappy Roots or Jurassic 5, all provided by producers JukeBawks & the group's own Otis Reed. Their Grizzly City, USA tape is due October 6th and if "Early 2000s" is any indication of what to expect, we'll all be singing their praises on the 7th. Rock with Grizzly City Boys and their introductory single below. Hold on for the next transmissions in the weeks ahead.